My husband and I spent a week in apartment Elena in September and had a wonderful, relaxing stay . Like previous posts have said, the majority of the time we had the whole pool and communal area all to ourselves making it feel very private and exclusive. The main bed was super comfy and we always had hot water for a shower. Yes the plumbing isn’t great and you have to put toilet paper in the bin rather than flush, but we’re used to doing this in Greece so no big problem (however you have to provide your own bags for the toilet bins). The location was perfect for us in that there are a great selection of good restaurants, a couple of supermarkets and a brilliant spa at the Elixir hotel all within 5 minutes downhill walk ( though a lot tougher walking back up). Walk into the start of town takes about 15 minutes and taxi back to apartment is 20lira.
Local CanCan supermarket will Deliver to the apartment for free any shopping.
The location was also very quiet at night, though we had a regular visitor in the form of a friendly and beautiful ginger cat who we named Harvey. We would frequently return to the apartment to find him waiting to greet us on the terrace for a stroke. Other than that, very little traffic.
If I return to Kalkan I would definitely stay at the Ekena